Dragonborn Saga

Some were even showing symptoms of poisoning.

The King's men barricaded the furniture of the throne room and readied whichever ranged weapons they had for the coming fight only for it not to come.
What came, however, was a voice the King never expected.

”Father! ” She called.

”Ro… Roselle? ” The King's eyes widened, ”They took you a hostage? ”

”Father. ” She spoke in a fearful tone behind the door, ”Is it true, father? You caused all this to happen? ”

”I didn't cause anything, daughter. ” The King replied with anger, ”Who are those men outside? ”

”Father, they say you're the one who hired the pirates.
Is… is that true? ” She asked in a regretful tone.

”Don't believe them! ” The King shouted, ”Your father will come for you.
I told you… I always told you those traitors are always trying to take things from us.
What I did… I did it for Wayrest.
For us.
This is what I always warned you from.
Those men… who are they! Stop hiding like the cowards you are! ”

”Ironic! ” Roselle snorted with a sad face before speaking in a grim voice, ”Those men are with me… King Jelric. ”

Silence was never this cold in the palace of Wayrest even with a city on fire outside of it.
The King just couldn't comprehend how it happened even though… he always knew… he always knew his daughter would be a threat.

Just not this kind of threat.

”Roselle.
What have you done? ” He asked as his anger kept boiling, ”Who did you side with? ”

”You made sure I side with no one, King Jelric.
You were wary of me since you are the king who murdered his father and got rid of the legitimate heir. ” She said.

”ENOUGH! ” The King shouted.

”Like father, like daughter, I assume. ” She said, ”It runs in the family. ”

The King who demanded to see his enemy kept hiding behind his guards as he had no idea what's on the outside.
Even though the Princess cornered him, he still has the upper hand since there is an army of pirates that will eventually head this way.

”What should we do? ” Aldo, the Pirate Leader, asked the King.

”We make our defense until reinforcements arrive. ” The King said.

Outside the room; it was only Jonrad, Roselle, and Glymet.
The two men were the shooters from earlier and they were expert archers.
After all, the scariest thing in this world is an archer with good stealth.

”What should we do next? ” Roselle asked.

”He should be back now. ” Glymet replied.

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During the time Roselle was speaking, Jonrad snuck out through the window and scaled the wall outside before sealing all the windows around the throne room by melting the locks and the hinges with his Flame Magic.

He then returned from the window and immediately headed towards the door of the Throne Room and cast [Hear Metal] to melt the lock and the hinges as well.

”You're ready? ” He then asked Roselle.

”Do it. ” She nodded.

Immediately, Jonrad punched a hole in the door and a few arrows started flying towards it, one of which managed to get cleanly through but Jonrad had already removed his hand.
The ones inside thought more holes would follow as the enemies outside should be ready to break in but that also wasn't the case.

Jonrad out his palm outside the hole and then mustered all the Magicka within with one strong push.
He cast [Flames] and overcharged it through a door.

”Magic! ”

”A Fire Mage! ”

The people inside completely retreated off the door before things would get ugly.
Lucky for them, the spell is short-ranged thus none of them was harmed.

But that wasn't the purpose.

Jonrad was spewing the Flames everywhere around the door and not before long, fire started spreading in the enclosed room.

Fire, smoke, heat.
A disastrous mix in a room full of people.

While the men inside tried to put off the fire, Jonrad had enough Magicka to spare on making it worse for them and before they knew it, they were suffocating.

The windows were impossible to open, even the door they locked completely sealed.
It finally started to look grim.

The King stayed at the back of the room behind a big table as much as he could but five minutes were all it took him to start suffocating as well.
It was then when Glymet gave the signal to stop the fire.

The Life energies inside the Throne Room were already diminishing so fast that they dropped from over 30 to just 7 and in bad conditions.
Jonrad immediately melted the lock and pushed the door down.

The door fell with an echoing noise and as expected, those survivors were the ones that managed to force open a window in order to breathe.

Death by suffocation, surely a terrible fate to inflict but what's done is done.

The King had the Commander and the Pirate Leader on his side while the remaining four were instantly shot by four arrows from the bow Jonrad wielded.
With the hand that held the bow, he had prepared extra arrows that he would flip and shoot almost instantly.

”Alik'r Archery! ” Aldo exclaimed.

A skill exclusive to the horsemen of the desert, no one would ride and shoot as fast as they do and this was some sight to witness yet a horror, however, to those who stand at the wrong side of those arrows.

”Roselle! You traitor! ” The King could no longer contain himself from anger and held his sword up.

Jonrad and Glymet were ready to take down the remaining three but Roselle spoke.

”Why? ” She asked.

Why would a king betray his country?

To act as a hero at the end of the day?

It was obvious, when a King kills his predecessor, the other nations and the nobles hardly recognize his authority or legitimacy as a ruler.
By being a Hero, King Jelric will gain the legitimacy he needs.

But why be a hero this way?

Why not work for the people and get the praises of the public? Why act as a thief and a thug? Why tarnish the name of the rulers? Why the greed? Why the evil? Is it fear from those in control? Is there no pride in one's nationality at all?

That is what her question meant.

Of course, there's no answer.
Those who think they are right just because they desire to be so are nothing but sinners.

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When it is said to them: ”Make no mischief on the land, ” they say: ”Why, we only Want to make peace! ”.
Of a surety, they are the ones who make mischief, but they realize it not.

When they are told to believe as the others believe, they say ”Shall we believe as the fools believe? ”.
Of a surety they are the fools, but they do know not.

”Kill them. ” She passed the judgment.

Jonrad and Glymet finally had their way and like hungry wolves, they bounced at their prey, dispatching them in minimal moves.

”Wait! Wait! Stop! Don't kill me! ” The King retreated, tripped in his clothes and his back hit a wall, ”If you kill me, you will still have to deal with them.
The pirates.
They are too many. ”

He spoke like a coward would and as the blade was at his throat.

”I can call it off! I can stop them. ” He said.

”You can? ” Roselle asked.

”I hired them! I am the only one who knows how to pay them. ” He said, ”They won't cross me until they get paid.
They know that… they know that the only way for them to get paid is me.
There's no gold in Wayrest anymore. ”

”What? ” Roselle shouted, ”You… you paid them with our gold? The treasury? ”

”I only… I only planned to confiscate what the nobles hoarded.
It is ten, no, twenty times what the treasury had.
Those greedy bastards had it all. ”

A choice!

On the tip of a blade, the King spilled his beans.
It wasn't long after that when he discovered that all his daughter had was Jonrad and the other man clad in black armor.

Two men just dispatched his elite guards and toppled his scheme on his head.

***

”What's it with corrupt rulers and pirates? ” Jon asked in frustration.

”Scum get together, son. ” Jonrad replied.

”But the Princess took care of him, right? ” Alina asked.

”Of her own father? She wished she had the strength to do so but we needed to exchange him for the safety of the city.
The pirates wanted their reward and so we ordered them to retreat until and exchange the King for the prisoners they took. ”

”Then? ”

”After the exchange, the Pirates left but Princess Roselle always knew that they would return one day very soon.
Glymet and I traced them back to their Den in Hammerfell and got rid of King Jelric and those who know of his secret.
By that, both my Sixth Labour and the Brotherhood Assassination contract were complete.
However, I was no longer welcome in Wayrest.
Roselle regrets killing her father till this day. ”

Jonrad had that distant look in his eyes filled with sadness over a ruined past.

”Where did you go next? ” Jon asked.

”We had to complete the job Uther Nere gave us.
Find the brotherhood listener and kill her.
However, during the Pirate attack, the Dark Brotherhood sanctuary was discovered and its members were slaughtered.
Glymet heard about another Sanctuary here in Skyrim, specifically in Falkreath. ”

Both Jon and Jullanar narrowed their eyes upon hearing that.

”You returned to Skyrim back then? ” Alina asked.

”No, only Glymet came.
I stayed in Bruma because I got tired from traveling.
Still, the story of what happened to him in Falkreath was the stuff of horror. ”

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